Giuseppe Iaria is Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology of the University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada), member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (Calgary, Canada), and Adjunct Professor of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada). He graduated in 1997 with a bachelors degree in psychology, completed further training in neuropsychology in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2003 (University of Rome "La Sapienza"). During this period he did behavioural and neuroimaging studies investigating the cognitive functions involved in navigation and orientation. These studies were conducted in in both healthy individuals and brain damaged patients and in different academic/research locations such as the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy), the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), Le College de France (Paris, France) and Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands). For more information visit this webpage. Email: giaria@ucalgary.ca.

Jason J S Barton completed his MD in 1984 and Neurology residency in 1990 at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), and fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology in 1991 at the University of Iowa (Iowa, USA). He obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada). From 1995 until 2004 he was Assistant and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Clinic at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). In 2004 he moved to the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) where he is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Psychology, Director of the Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, and the Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory. More information is available at this webpage.

The following is a list of our recently published articles regarding human orientation and navigation:

Iaria, G., Palermo, L., Committeri, G., & Barton, J. J. (2009). Age differences in the formation and use of cognitive maps. Behavioural Brain Research, 196(2), 187-91.

Iaria, G., Bogod, N., Fox, C. J., & Barton, J. J. (2009). Developmental topographical disorientation: Case one. Neuropsychologia, 47(1), 30-40.

Incoccia, C., Magnotti, L., Iaria, G., Piccardi, L., & Guariglia, C. (2008). Topographical disorientation in a patient who never developed navigational skills: the (re)habilitation treatment. Neuropsychol Rehabil, September 4: Epub ahead of print.

Ferrara, M., Iaria, G., Tempesta, D., Curcio, G., Moroni, F., De Gennaro, L., & Pacitti, C. (2008). Sleep to find your way: The role of sleep in the consolidation of memory for navigation in humans. Hippocampus, 18(8), 844-51.

Palermo, L., Iaria, G., & Guariglia, C. (2008). Mental imagery skills in topographical orientation in humans: a correlation study. Behavioural Brain Research, 192(2), 248-53.

Iaria, G., Fox, C. J., Chen, J. K., Petrides, M., & Barton, J. J. (2008). Detection of unexpected events during spatial navigation in humans: bottom-up attentional system and neural mechanisms. Eur J Neurosci, 27(4), 1017-1025.

Piccardi, L., Iaria, G., Ricci, M., Bianchini, F., Zompanti, L., & Guariglia, C. (2008). Walking in the Corsi test: which type of memory do you need? Neurosci Lett, 432(2), 127-131.

Iaria, G., Lanyon, L. J., Fox, C. J., Giaschi, D., & Barton, J. J. (2008). Navigational skills correlate with hippocampal fractional anisotropy in humans. Hippocampus, 18(4), 335-339.

Bohbot, V. D., Lerch, J., Thorndycraft, B., Iaria, G., & Zijdenbos, A. P. (2007). Gray matter differences correlate with spontaneous strategies in a human virtual navigation task. J Neurosci, 27(38), 10078-10083.

Iaria, G., Chen, J. K., Guariglia, C., Ptito, A., & Petrides, M. (2007). Retrosplenial and hippocampal brain regions in human navigation: complementary functional contributions to the formation and use of cognitive maps. Eur J Neurosci, 25(3), 890-899.

Ferrara, M., Iaria, G., De Gennaro, L., Guariglia, C., Curcio, G., Tempesta, D., & Bertini, M. (2006). The role of sleep in the consolidation of route learning in humans: a behavioural study. Brain Res Bull, 71(1-3), 4-9.

Iaria, G., Incoccia, C., Piccardi, L., Nico, D., Sabatini, U., & Guariglia, C. (2005). Lack of orientation due to a congenital brain malformation: a case study. Neurocase, 11(6), 463-474.

Bohbot, V. D., Iaria, G., & Petrides, M. (2004). Hippocampal function and spatial memory: evidence from functional neuroimaging in healthy participants and performance of patients with medial temporal lobe resections. Neuropsychology, 18(3), 418-425.

Iaria, G., Petrides, M., Dagher, A., Pike, B., & Bohbot, V. D. (2003). Cognitive strategies dependent on the hippocampus and caudate nucleus in human navigation: variability and change with practice. J Neurosci, 23(13), 5945-5952.